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| Hello tomato lovers, This question isn't about the graft itself but about the cuttings AFTER the grafted tomato has already grown. Last year I purchased a grafted sungold (rootstock unknown). It grew fabulous! and I loved those little orangy, yellow tomatoes. So when the fall came I took about three cuttings and grew them in my greenhouse all winter. The bounty wasn't great...but I enjoyed the steady crop of one or two candy-drops every few days. The cuttings grew well and have grown into full sized plants now in 2 gallon containers. I've even taken cuttings from the cuttings. Now my question: Will these cuttings have the same growing habit as the original grafted plant I planted last year? In other words, will planting these new cutting plants in the garden this year have the same vigor and qualities that I loved in the mother plant or am I basically propagating a regular sungold over and over? (which will be okay, too.) |
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- Posted by centexan254 none (My Page) on Wed, Mar 12, 14 at 15:35
| I am going to say a big probably not. Though they may still do well. The root will be different than the the parent plant had. As you said it was grafted to a different root stock. I wish you luck, a great season, and a bountiful harvest. |
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| Yeah, unless you graft them on to new root stock they will be regular (as in never-grafted) Sungold. They aren't genetically altered just because they were once grafted onto something else. But then plain ole Sungold grows just fine for most of us who aren't plagued with soil-borne diseases. Dave |
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- Posted by carolyn137 z4/5 NY (My Page) on Wed, Mar 12, 14 at 19:13
| If you read the link below you'll see that some say that fruit yield is increased, sometimes marginally, on grafted plants. IF that's true with you grafted Sungold F1 plants then fine, but cuttings from the vegetative part should give you the normal number of fruits, which for me has always been high anyway. CAROLYN |
Here is a link that might be useful: rootstock and fruit yield
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